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This paper summarizes new developments in world trade, technological changes worldwide and their implications for recent theoretical studies in economics. After defining the economic globalization and schematizing its relations with international trade, economic growth and technological change,...
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exchange-rate coordination may eliminate the swings of the bilateral real exchange rate between Brazil and Argentina, which is …
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During the last two decades of the twentieth century, Brazil went through a sequence of failed stabilization plans that …
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This paper investigates the main sources of instability in Brazil during the currency and financial distress episode of …
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The international literature on minimum wage greatly lacks empirical evidence from developing countries. In Brazil, not …
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groups in the Metropolitan Region of Salvador (MRS), Bahia state, in Northeastern Brazil. Our results suggest that sheepskin …
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In the financial crisis literature, it is usually argued that, contrary to the case of currency crises, building a time series index to identify banking crisis episodes is highly difficult, particularly because of the lack of reliable data on banking sector variables (non-performing loans,...
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This paper examines the determinants of the real effective exchange rate (REER) in Brazil, from 1994 to 2003. Building …
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. The accelerated growth episodes observed in Brazil and China demonstrate that the increase in income inequality may have …
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sector are under consideration in countries throughout the world. Brazil, though something of a latecomer to wider … infrastructure reform, has recently taken large steps in restructuring its railroad system. This paper analyzes Brazil's ongoing … railroad reforms, seeking to place them in the context both of the broader reform project going on in Brazil and of railroad …
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